Hiyas Penelope, As I am both in the UK, a stalwart of accessibilty and have some design experience of taking a site up to AAA standards ( http://mgjuddltd.co.uk/conformance.php) I'd be happy to be point of contact if the team wishes so.
Regards, Phill. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw On 29 November 2010 14:48, Penelope Stowe <pst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hiya, > > I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. > > I've been talking to the developers of the LoCo Directory and the > Ubuntu Website and they're very frustrated with the bugs and > complaints about accessibility on the website, not because they don't > want to do anything, but because they are not in charge of design > issues, that is something the design team should be addressing and the > design team is not subscribed to the LoCo Directory and Ubuntu Website > bugs. > > Several things have come out of this conversation: > > 1) I've agreed to ask the accessibility team to stop filing bugs > directly against the LoCo Directory and Ubuntu Website since it's not > helping anything and just causing more frustration. > > 2) Michael Hall has created > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/light-a11y-theme as a place for > accessibility related website/LoCo directory bugs to be logged. I hope > and encourage the design team members who focus on the website design > to subscribe to these bugs. > > 3) The other option is to use the Ayatana mailing list or e-mail the > design team members directly, however, do remember to be polite and > not overload the list or team. I would like to have one person on the > accessibility team who is a point-of-contact for website issues to > avoid mailbox flooding. I'd like volunteers, however, I think it would > be best if the volunteer were to be in the UK or in a time zone close > to GMT so that they have a better chance of being able to interact > with the design team in real time if necessarily. > > 4) It's brought up a clear need for some communication with the design > team on how to get the guidelines for website design to fit in with > accessibility needs, since they so clearly don't at the moment. I know > this makes it a complicated and long process, however, I think it's > the best plan to get this issue fixed in the long term. Otherwise, the > same discussions will come up on every bit of the Ubuntu website every > time something changes and just be more and more frustrating for > everyone. > > Please also remember in this process that the design team is made up > of human beings. They are largely only available during work hours in > the UK Monday-Friday so do not get impatient if there is no answer to > your e-mails on weekends or evenings. They have a lot of work to do > and we are only one part of that. > > I hope this can lead to some progress on the issues with the website > as it is important for people's first impressions of accessibility in > Ubuntu (since if they can't access the website, why would they think > they could use the operating system?) and because it is very obviously > an area that is causing a lot of frustration. > > Thanks, > Penelope > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility >
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